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'Dear Koch Brothers: We Aren't Going Anywhere' (Dems doubling down)
Politico ^ | 11/7/14 | KENNETH P. VOGEL and TARINI PARTI

Posted on 11/07/2014 9:18:11 AM PST by jalisco555

Democrats are doubling down on their attacks against the Koch brothers.

Prompted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrats spent millions of dollars spotlighting Republican ties to the billionaire conservative megadonors Charles and David Koch. But despite Republicans — and some Democrats — publicly decrying the strategy after Tuesday’s GOP wave as an ineffective waste of money, Reid told allies on election night that he planned to continue hammering the brothers, according to an operative close to him. Continue Reading Text Size

And big-money liberal groups ranging from the Democrats’ Senate campaign arm and House super PAC to the outfits run by billionaire Tom Steyer and conservative-turned-liberal enforcer David Brock all signaled that they intended to pursue anti-Koch spending and oppo tactics headed into the 2016 election.

Brock’s American Bridge outfit on Thursday began circulating a memo to senior Democratic congressional aides and big money groups making the case for redoubling the effort to make the Kochs into boogeymen.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidbrock; davodbrock; insanity; koch; kochbrothers; reid
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To: jalisco555

Dear {billionaire} Tom Steyer, {billionaire} Bill/Melinda Gates, {billionaire} Steve Balmer, {billionaire} Warren Buffet, {billionaire} Michael Bloomberg, {billionaire} Mark Zuckerberg, {billionaire} Steven Spielberg, {billionaire} George Soros, {billionaire} A. Cox Chambers, etc., etc.:

WE AREN’T GOING ANYWHERE EITHER!

Want to know the fastest way to be come a multi-millionaire? Start as a multi-billionaire and “invest” in the bankrupt, failed policies of socialism and liberalism!


61 posted on 11/07/2014 10:11:17 AM PST by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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To: gogeo

Let them. That will help us in 2016. We are sick of those criminal bullies that never shut up and never get charged for their crimes. Bring it on libs. People are fed up with liberals and their nastiness.


62 posted on 11/07/2014 10:11:36 AM PST by dandiegirl
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To: jalisco555

‘Dear Koch Brothers: We Aren’t Going Anywhere’

Yeah, you are. GTFO


63 posted on 11/07/2014 10:12:09 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I was being conservative. lol


64 posted on 11/07/2014 10:12:39 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Sadly, most of the tech billionaires are left wingers, and they DO throw money at leftist candidates.


65 posted on 11/07/2014 10:16:31 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
What you read and reality are two entirely different things then.

Okay, thanks.

66 posted on 11/07/2014 10:17:13 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

yep

not to mention all the corporations that donate to leftist causes


67 posted on 11/07/2014 10:20:05 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: jalisco555

LOL - I suspect the Kochs bothers won’t lose any sleep over this idiocy. And they might even be quietly pleased democrats are throwing so much money away on silly name calling...


68 posted on 11/07/2014 10:23:12 AM PST by GOPJ ( MSNBC is left-wing radio with pictures. CNN's anchors are mostly tired, left-wing & smug.. -Nolte)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Don’t forget the third and perhaps biggest goal:

3. To extort money for progressive (neo-fascist) political causes out of other and future billionaires with the promise that they will be left in peace if they give enough. In other words, its the Chicago way of doing politics (think Al Capone): “Pay us, and you won’t have union troubles or unexplained fires.” Buffett, Gates, Soros, Steyer, Blumberg, and many others have been playing this game with progressives for a long time. For them it is simply like buying insurance.


69 posted on 11/07/2014 10:33:00 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: dandiegirl
We may have reached a tipping point. Obama got the RATS where they are because of arrogance and overreach.

He's a community organizer at heart, he can't help himself. We'll have to invent a new word for 'overreach' to describe the next two years.

He'll set the RATS back 20 years.

70 posted on 11/07/2014 10:33:40 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: GeronL

and about half of Wall Street. They want amnesty.


71 posted on 11/07/2014 10:37:44 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: jalisco555

That’s ok, we need somebody to walk over to keep our shoes dry.


72 posted on 11/07/2014 10:39:19 AM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I come from a limb of the Koch tree and over the decades I have heard it both ways. Apparently pronunciation can be anyway one prefers. Pronounced as “Kotch” reminds me of a Russian family version. Pronounced as ‘Coke’ makes me think of German roots which even some Russian migrates preferred using. My Lutheran confirmation pastor preferred the ‘coke’ sound but deferred to my parents ‘kotch’ pronunciation.


73 posted on 11/07/2014 10:43:13 AM PST by noinfringers2
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To: jalisco555

The donkeys are crazy.


74 posted on 11/07/2014 10:44:01 AM PST by Pluto is NOT a Planet
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To: stephenjohnbanker

WS equals Crony Krapitalists


75 posted on 11/07/2014 10:46:21 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: nanetteclaret

I suppose its best I not post the obvious next one-upmanship on this trajectory....


76 posted on 11/07/2014 10:47:47 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Paladin2

Yep


77 posted on 11/07/2014 10:50:03 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Osage Orange

why don’t you answer the two very simple direct questions. I mean look, you can go on in ignorance and make yourself so unhappy - a common trait among too many here on FR - or you can learn a little something, and be less unhappy.

They do have some libertarian leanings, but they are pretty doggoned close to Reagan conservatism. That should make you happy, not snotty.


78 posted on 11/07/2014 10:50:23 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; Osage Orange

The bulk of their philanthropy is nonpolitical (arts, education). One of them founded CATO which is about as pure libertarian as you can get. I would say their main focus is free markets, small government, but you can’t ignore the fact that they are pro legalization and pro gay marriage.


79 posted on 11/07/2014 10:50:53 AM PST by palmer (Minnesota Is Monitoring 48 for Ebola, Already 12 Go Missing)
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To: Olog-hai
Koch bad.

Soros good.

/s

80 posted on 11/07/2014 10:53:05 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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